Joe Tafur
Co-Founder | Author, The Fellowship of the River, Church of the Eagle of the Condor Author of The Fellowship of the River - a series of stories that chronicles his work in the Peruvian Amazon at Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual, completed his family medicine training at UCLA and spent two years in academic research at the UCSD Department of Psychiatry in a lab focused on mind-body medicine
About this speaker
Joe Tafur, M.D., is a Colombian-American family physician originally
from Phoenix, Arizona. After completing his family medicine training
at UCLA, Dr. Tafur spent two years in academic research at the UCSD
Department of Psychiatry in a lab focused on mind-body medicine. After
his research fellowship, over a period of six years, he lived and
worked in the Peruvian Amazon at the traditional healing center Nihue
Rao Centro Espiritual. There he worked closely with master Shipibo
healer Ricardo Amaringo and trained in ayahuasca curanderismo. In his
book "The Fellowship of the River: A Medical Doctor's Exploration into
Traditional Amazonian Plant Medicine," through a series of stories,
Dr. Tafur shares his unique experience and integrative theories.